A Brave Journey: Reclaiming Your Identity After 40

Christine Lozada is an award-winning travel creator, drone educator, speaker, host of the Everyday Badassery podcast, and traveling pickleball player who helps millions travel smarter on YouTube. Today, she's with me to share her transformative journey from following prescribed societal "shoulds" to living a life full of passion, travel, and authenticity.  From small steps toward change to monumen...

Do you ever feel stuck between stages in life, questioning everything? This episode explores the importance of community and connection, especially during challenging times. We talk about the power of community and connection as essential tools for navigating these cycles, the paradox of individualism versus finding your tribe, the impact of vulnerability on personal growth, and how stepping past...

How can you navigate the complexities of identity and personal branding in today's interconnected world? Elaine Tsung joins me to share her journey from projecting a curated social media image to embracing authenticity in life and business. We talk about her experience navigating a toxic relationship masked by Instagram perfectionism, her pivotal moments of self-realization, and the challenges of...

Do you feel stuck in a period where you feel lost or that you're failing? I'm going to be really honest and vulnerable here. I see the goals I'm striving for and the impact I want to make, yet everything just feels stuck. I've found myself spiraling with negative self-talk and questioning my abilities and progress. Frustrating is an understatement. Demoralizing? Definitely. But here's the thing: I...

Today's episode will inspire you to step out of your comfort zone, reinvent yourself, and live a life that's authentic to you. I'm chatting with Jordan Campbell, a former award-winning creative director who left the hectic corporate world to become a freelance designer and travel blogger specializing in off-beat destinations and tasty beverages. We talk all about what led up to quitting her succes...

We often hear messages discouraging curiosity, like "curiosity killed the cat" or "ignorance is bliss." But what if those sayings are holding us back? This episode explores the concept of curiosity and its importance in living a fulfilling life. You'll learn how curiosity can be a powerful tool for personal growth, helping us to learn new things, challenging our assumptions and limiting beliefs (a...

Are you struggling to reintegrate into "normal" life after a transformative experience? Do you feel yourself slipping back into autopilot and finding it difficult to maintain the positive changes you've made (or want to make)? In this episode, I reflect on what I learned from my adventure through Central America and talk about some of the challenges I've faced since returning home to the United St...

Have you ever thought to yourself, "When I do XYZ, when I achieve that goal, when I get that thing…. then I will be happy?" I'm sure you've heard the term "happiness comes from within," but it's hard to believe when social media and societal pressures constantly bombard us with messages that happiness lies outside ourselves.  Today, we are flipping the script on what it means to be happy. We'll ex...

Do you ever feel like you just crushed a personal development goal, but then you begin to feel uninspired or stuck, or the pressure to do more hits you? This episode dives into the importance of rest and integration after periods of significant personal growth and why it's crucial for lasting transformation. We'll explore why we often feel compelled to chase the "next thing" after a breakthrough a...

Do you find yourself slipping back into old patterns, even after making a conscious effort to change? Today, I'm sharing how to overcome those automatic behaviors and habits that interfere with personal growth. This episode is your guide to understanding why we get stuck in those comfy (but ultimately unhelpful) routines, the sneaky ways our egos can sabotage our progress, and how to reprogram you...

Many of us live and function in a rather privledged world.  We have a lot of stuff. We have a lot of comforts and conveniences that are so "normal" that we don't even see them on a daily basis.  IT is all just water to the fish.  And we spend quite a bit of energy maintaining and protecting all of those things because another thing that happened along the way is we decided those things were a meas...

Why do we give our power away to external structures and belief systems created to keep us right where we are? In this episode, I'm reflecting on a passage from Brianna Wiest's "The Pivot Year" and exploring how the systems we live within, like our family, education, and work, have been designed to maintain the status quo and hinder us from reaching our full potential.   Join me as we navigate the...

When we make something special - when we "pay" attention or give focus to something that has happened to us (or didn't happen to us?), or something that we want, or something that we want to release - we give it power.  It becomes something we grasp on to or obsess about or measure our worth by. Often this has the exact opposite effect we think it will. It can artificially keep undesirable things...

Do you feel lonely? In a world where we're always connected, why do we still feel so damn isolated? We crave to belong and feel understood, yet hide behind carefully crafted masks for fear of being "found out."   This episode explores the impact of loneliness, how we're unintentionally blocking ourselves from true connection, and the "why" behind it all.    Top Reasons to Listen to This Episode: D...

We are constantly bombarded with words - in meetings, on social media, in class, while socialzing.  We are so numb to it at this point, they wash over us without us really realizing it.  We have perhaps stopped giving careful thought to what we take in, and what comes out of our mouth. And then we try to communicate in a foreign country.  We are immediately forced into considering our words carefu...

One of the things I have come to realize as I travel and move around the world is - I am not a city girl.  I used to be a city girl - I loved the energy and excitement of living in the middle of an urban center.  It felt exciting and cool and hip. But I have changed - and that's ok.  Our thoughts, ideas, preferences and styles can change and morph over time.  It makes sense - we get new input and...

Do you feel like you're alone in your personal transformation journey? When we let our ego and negative self-talk get in the way, it's easy to lose that connection to others, leading us to feel like we're the only one with these "crazy" thoughts or that no one else feels quite the way we do.   But the good news? We're not alone - we just have to stop hiding. Today, I'm talking about how we're deny...

There is a saying that goes - whatever it is you think you can or cannot do, you are right. Our minds create a world for us that is either a source of endless possibility and abundance or a prison with endless brick walls.  We really do get to choose.  What's sad is, the easier choice is to believe "I can't." So that is what most of us choose by default.  It's safe.  It's neat and clean. But when...

At one point or another (if not 24/7), you have been forced, conditioned, or obligated into being someone you're not for the sake of conforming for comfort. In our exhausting quest to belong and fit in, we deny our true identities by consciously and subconsciously following societal norms and aligning our beliefs and values to the environments we're in.   In this episode, I'm sharing the replay of...

It can feel overwhelming to contemplate transforming your life in some way - like a new job, or family situation, or health habits -  or rediscovering the identity you seem to have lost somewhere along your path.  So much so that you put it off, you hem and haw, you distract yourself with a million other things that now conveniently must get done before you can get down to business. Let me stop yo...

The simplest thing you can do to manifest what you want in your life is to make space for it.  Seriously.  No amount of hard work or luck or ingenuity will bring you what you desire if you do not have the capacity to receive it. Mindfully opening space or taking steps that prime you for what you want, or even acting and living "as if" the thing you desire is already here will have a magical effect...

By the time we reach midlife, we've been given so much input about what we should be doing, thinking, and feeling. We've gone through life on autopilot, creating an "acceptable" identity in an effort to belong and pushing away anything that challenges the belief system we've built. One day, something happens that leads us to ask, "Who am I?" "What am I missing?" "Is this all there really is?"   Wh...

The time is finally here!  My inaugural episode of A Brave Journey drops on Tues (1/9/23)! It seemed appropriate that I record this little thought about it from the top of the Mombacho Volcano - sort of a mini brave journey within a journey so to speak. LOL!  The hike really challenged me, but I am so glad I did it.  It really showed me that I can do anything I set my mind to.  Had I known how dif...

Sometimes you just have an off day - and often we make it worse because we judge ourselves for it, as if there is some cosmic report card for "good behavior."  It can be easy to think that if we are on a purposeful journey to grow, be authentic and lead our best lives that any day or period of time where we feel blue, or lethargic, or "unproductive" is a failure or backslide. Frankly, I think if w...

You can hear the advice all the time that you need to "put yourself out there," "be vulnerable," "be a friend to gain a friend," or anything along those lines.  But it is only when you actually do it that you get that vital validation that its really true. It really works. However small the action, when we open ourselves up to trying something new or being vulnerable enough to meet new people - ev...